The Dublin Show -- Later That Evening...

on the 2004 Ig™ Nobel Tour of the UK and Ireland

WHEN/WHERE: March 14, 2004, the pubs of Dublin.

Kees Moeliker's mallard duck and a glass of Guinness beer.

WHAT: After the show at the Royal Society of Dublin, many members of the audience joined Ig Nobel Prize winners David Gadian, Pek Van Andel and Kees Moeliker, and master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, in taking a theoretically scientific tour of several of the pubs in Dublin.

Ig Nobel Prize winner Kees Moeliker and the duck became popular figures in pubs throughout Dublin.

Kees Moeliker and his stuffed mallard duck immediately became the social center of every pub. (Why a duck? Because in 2003, Moeliker was awarded the Ig Nobel Biology Prize for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.)

Ig Nobel Prize winner Pek Van Andel engages in conversation with a member of the Dublin scientific community.

PHOTOS: Nearly all of the photos here were taken by Kees Moeliker.

Ig Nobel master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winner David Gadian discuss the physics concept known as "the red shift."

Pek Van Andel holds a discussion over a duck.

Representatives of the Dublin scientific community explain social science to several bedraggled Ig Nobel Tour participants. The duck is, geographically, the center of attention.

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Winners on the Tour

Here are some of the Ig Nobel Prize winners who appeared at one or more Tour events.

Charles Deeming (Biology Prize 2002), Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain

Chris Frith, (Medicine Prize, 2003), The Impressive Brains of London Taxi Drivers

David Gadian (Medicine Prize, 2003), The Impressive Brains of London Taxi Drivers

Andrey Geim (Physics Prize, 2000), Using Magnets to Levitate a Frog

Harold Hillman (Peace Prize, 1997), The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods

Chris McManus (Medicine Prize 2002), Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture

Kees Moeliker (Biology Prize, 2003), The First Scientifically Recorded Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck

Charles Paxton (Biology Prize 2002), Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain

Karl Schwärzler (Economics Prize, 2003), How to Rent the Entire Country of Liechtenstein for Corporate Conventions, Weddings, and Bar Mitzvahs

Pek Van Andel (Medicine Prize, 2000), Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal

For more details about any of them, see the list of all Ig Nobel Prize Winners

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The book:

Times Higher Education Supplement

British Association For the Advancement of Science